Minnie Louise Haskins (1875–1957) was a British poet and sociology academic, best known for The Gate of the Year, quoted by King George VI in his 1939 Christmas broadcast.
Born in Oldland, Gloucestershire, she grew up in Warmley, where her father ran a pottery business. She studied informally at University College, Bristol, while doing church volunteer work. In 1903, she worked in Lambeth for the Springfield Hall Wesleyan Methodist Mission, then traveled to Madras in 1907 with the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society to work in a Zenana mission. Health issues forced her return to England in 1915, where she pursued sociology at the London School of Economics, later tutoring there until 1939.
Her published works include The Desert (1912,) featuring God Knows, later The Gate of the Year (1939,) The Potter (1918,) and Foundations of Industrial Welfare (1921,) co-authored with Eleanor T. Kelly, promoting worker-employer cooperation.
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And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.” And he replied, “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”
—Minnie Louise Haskins
Topics: Light, Faith
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