The Vestibules of Life by Dr F W Boreham

Unsure when and where this article was published but a note on the article says, "Post this to Baptist as soon as conversion of CHS has appeared." [Meaning Charles Haddon Spurgeon]

Who that has spent delicious hours exploring the idyllic grace of the English countryside has not been charmed by the quaint and simple beauty of the porches by which the wayside cottages are invariably adorned? Even in tiny hamlets in which the thoroughfare is destitute of pavements, these pretty porches, draped with ivy or honeysuckle or rambler roses, jut out into the roadway imparting a spice of romance to a scene that might otherwise have emerged upon the commonplace. And in those more frequent cases in which you view the rural home across an old-fashioned garden of hollyhocks, delphiniums, coronations, marguerites, lobelias, nasturtiums, wallflowers, sweet williams and clematis, the porch is still the most intriguing object on the picturesque horizon.