The Twelfth Annual Conference of Eastern College Men on the Christian Ministry will be called to order at the Shepard Memorial Chapel, on the corner of Mason and Garden streets, this evening at 6.30 o'clock. At this time a dinner will be served to the delegates and speakers. Dr. Albert Parker Fitch '00. President of the Andover Theological Seminary, will preside. Toasts will be responded to by the Reverend Raymond Calkins '90, D.D., the Reverend Professor Kirsopp Lake, M.A., D.D., and the Reverend Professor Hugh L. Fosbrook, of the Episcopal Theological School. After the dinner, a meeting will be held in Phillips Brooks House, at which the Reverend Daniel Evans, D.D., will deliver an address of welcome. The Reverend H. E. Fosdick, D.D., will speak on "The Principles that Govern the Choice of a Vocation," and Professor E. C. Moore, D.D., Ph.D., will speak on "The Claim of the Christian Ministry on College Men."

Tomorrow morning the Conference will meet at Andover Chapel at 9 o'clock, and again in the evening at 7.30 o'clock. At the morning meeting the Reverend W. H. Wilson, D.D., Ph.D., will discuss the "Country Movement in its Relation to the Rural Church"; the Reverend N. Boynton, D.D., will speak on "The Perils and Possibilities of the City Council"; and the Reverend W. Reuschenbusch, D.D., on "The Minister as a Servant of the Community." The speakers at the evening meeting will be the Reverend M. W. Jacobs, D.D., LL.D., who will speak on "The Personal Cost of the Ministry," and the Reverend D. B. Eddy, who will discuss "The Ministry and the World-Wide Mission of the Church."

Sunday there will be two meetings of the Conference, the first at the service in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock, when Dr. Fitch will preach, and the second in Andover Chapel at 2.30 o'clock. Professor W. E. Hocking '01, of the University, will address the meeting on "What the Philosophy of the Body has to say about the Church." Dr. Fitch will also speak on "Religious Leadership in America after the War.