All things are ready! there's a place of rest

"All things are ready! there's a place of rest" is a Eucharistic hymn intended primarily for private devotional reading rather than public congregational singing. The original authorship of the core text remains untraced.

The hymn is documented in three distinct recensions. The earliest known form begins with the line "All things are ready! Jesus waits to give," appearing anonymously in three four-line stanzas in a Chipping Norton collection from 1859. A second four-stanza form, opening with "All things are ready! there's a place of rest," combined an added introductory stanza with the 1859 text. Godfrey Thring later adopted this four-stanza version for his Collection (No. 526), contributing a fifth stanza and altering the fourth line of the fourth stanza to complete a third, expanded cento.