"All thanks be to God" is a hymn of thanksgiving written by Charles Wesley following a historic preaching service in Cornwall. On August 10, 1746, Wesley addressed an estimated gathering of nearly ten thousand listeners inside Gwennap Pit, a natural amphitheatre near Redruth formed by a sunken mining shaft. Deeply moved by the large audience and the success of his mission, he composed the text the following day.
The hymn was published in 1747 as entry number three in Hymns for those that Seek and those that Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ, consisting of eight eight-line stanzas under the title "Thanksgiving for the Success of the Gospel." When John Wesley included the text in the 1780 Wesleyan Hymn Book, he omitted the fourth stanza and revised portions of the text. This abridged version was widely adopted across Methodist hymnals in Great Britain and North America.
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