All things are ready, Come. A. Midlane. [Invitation.] Written in July, 1860, and first published in The Ambassador's Hymn Book, 1861, No. 49, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, S.M., from whence it has passed into numerous collections both in Great Britain and America. It ranks with the most popular of the author's productions. Original text in Spurgeon's 0ur Own Hymn Book, 1866, No. 504.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)