THE MENNONITE BROTHERHOOD IN RUSSIA (1789 - 1910), P. M. Friesen, 1911

e]. Of the 1168 souls, however, only 433 are baptized church members or children of baptized members, since the missionaries there are very careful in the administration of baptism, desiring to baptize only true believers. A second mission station of Anabaptists and Mennonites in the Residentie Japara in Java, which resembles Mergaredjo in that it also has a Christian missions colony in close proximity, is Kedung Pendjalin. Here Johann Huebert [from the Lichtenau congregation] has worked as a missionary since 1893. When Huebert began his work here, a small number of Christians already existed in the area. Now, after a ministry of sixteen years, a Christian church of 507 souls and a prosperous colony on leased land are to be found there. In this colony there are also a few who call themselves Christians and submit to Christian regulations, but are not yet baptized. A Dutch brother deBoer (pronounced “Boor”) is the administrator on both leased areas of our mission in Java, so that the work on them is proceeding properly. The third mission station of Anabaptists and Mennonites in Java is called Kajuapu. Here missionary Johann Fast labored for six years, after he returned to Java after his first visit to his South Russian homeland. He established a station ; there were already a few Christians there, and now there is a small congregation of 111 souls. On all three stations of the Anabaptists and Mennonites in Java there are flourishing schools. The large school at Mergaredjo, which consists of an elementary and secondary school, is attended by more than 200 students; the school at Kedung Pendjalin by 130; the school at Kajuapu by 60. 4. Each of the three mentioned stations has a small hospital in which many patients are treated by the missionaries, not only with physical medicine, but also with the spiritual medicine of the Gospel and of the Word of God. Since the missionaries are only imperfect physicians because they have not been fully trained as doctors, the Anabaptist Missionary Society has engaged a fully trained doctor, Br. D.H. Bervoets (pronounced “Berfuts”), at the Residentie Japara in Java. Doctor Bervoets had practiced medicine in Java for six years and had established a good reputation through his performance. He has the responsibility of establishing a large hospital between Mergaredjo and Kedung Pendjalin at the Dessa Kelat— in which not only general patients are to be treated, but also the seriously ill, who cannot receive adequate help in the hospitals on the stations because of the limited medical knowledge of the missionaries. He is also establishing a leprosy asylum. With the medical remedies, Dr. Bervoets, a man of positive faith, will apply the spiritual remedies, the gospel and the Word of God, The Older Church 665 in order to heal the patients not only physically, but also spiritually. The work is carried on under the name (Dutch) "Medische Zending.” 5 The missions committee