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Church the clergymen of the parishes are chosen by a com-
mittee in Holland, and afterward appointed by a minister of
the colonies. Their salaries are paid by the government.
JAVANESE WOMEX
In addition to these clergymen of the State Church there
are in the islands representatives of ten Dutch and two Ger-
man missionary societies. The Salvation Army also
Other has a post in Batavia. These societies claim more
Missionary than thirty-six thousand communicants, most of them
Movements being converts from Mohammedanism. In 1820 a
Baptist missionary opened work in Sumatra, and in
1834 the American Board sent out Munson and Lyman, but
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