# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1929_S57
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

56 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Pastor L. G. Dorpat and His Congregation at Meherrin, Va.

This congregation was founded in 1884 by Pastor R. W. Buehler. Most of the members of our
flourishing mission at Yonkers, N. Y., hail from Meherrin. Many a caravan of slaves on its way to
the southern cotton-lields rested on the present site of this church in the days prior to Emancipation.

Our Congregation at Mansura (Lutherville), La.,

which will celebrate the thirtieth ‘anniversary of its founding on Pentecost.
rn Its pastor, Rev. C. P. Thompson, is a son of the congregation.