Charles Fillmore saw great possibilities for spreading the Unity message via radio. The first program was aired in July, 1921. Unity News for November 4, 1922, reports that Charles Fillmore’s Sunday talks were to be broadcast. The December 15, 1923, Unity News states, "Beginning tonight Charles Fillmore will conduct regularly the healing message at the Saturday midnight radio service that is broadcast from Unity auditorium." (Our auditorium here at 913 Tracy.) In the issue for January 26, 1924, the following item appeared under the title, RADIO SERVICE ATTRACTS MANY: "If you are not attending or listening in on the Saturday night healing service that is broadcast from Unity auditorium, you are missing one of the best meetings at Unity headquarters. ..."

        On September 3, 1924, Unity bought its very own station, WOQ, and moved the equipment to the Ninth and Tracy complex. In June of 1929, Unity hooked up with the American Broadcasting Company and began carrying programs from Seattle, Washington. Although WOQ was discontinued in 1934, Unity broadcasting continued to gain support. Weekly Unity, April 27, 1935, lists four stations presenting 33 Unity programs each week: Clay Center, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas; and Waco, Texas. The spots included morning meditation periods, the local Sunday morning Unity service, and the Sunday afternoon Unity Band concert. Most of the Band members were Unity workers and their programs had been on the air for over eight years.

        The Morning Meditations went by various other names: God’s Quarter Hour, and Unity Viewpoint. By 1938, nine stations from coast to coast were carrying these fifteen minute weekday talks while three others had Unity broadcasts once a week. Transcripts of the program were made available to listeners. So many people wrote in requesting them on a regular basis that a subscription list was started which contained 350 names by 1950. At the request of listeners, many of the daily lessons were bound into a book entitled Favorite Unity Radio Talks. The Acknowledgment in the back of it reads: "The material in Favorite Unity Radio Talks first appeared in various Unity publications. Each radio script herein is an abridgment or adaptation of some Unity article. In some cases the titles of the original articles have been changed for use in this book, but the name of the author of the original material appears at the end of each chapter."

        The list of authors includes some of the earliest and best known Unity writers.

        Following are excerpts from the script for Friday, July 11, 1941.

        Sometimes in the maze of worldly trials and tribulations, when you have wished so ardently for a better job, a more comfortable home, an increase in salary, for a healthy body, for a new automobile, or even a vacation or a new dress or hat, haven’t you felt just a bit puzzled when some devout and well-meaning person has quoted the words–"Seek ye first His kingdom, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you"?

        ... Hasn’t the admonition left you in something of a daze, perhaps a feeling of wonderment as to just what the kingdom of God really is? Of what is it constituted, and what is it to seek "His righteousness"? Can we do this by being kind, loving, generous? By giving our tithes to the church, and attending church services? And when we are doing our best, at least, what we think is our best, how can we know if we are truly seeking God’s kingdom? ...

        In our human minds, there is something vague, mystical, and mysterious about the possibility of us actually "seeking His kingdom and His righteousness". How very startling it is, once it dawns upon us, that the kingdom is simply the state in which we come to know God and to live with Him. It is really being receptive to all good; it is an awareness of the power and presence of good in and through all the vicissitudes of our daily lives.

        ...It has been difficult to realize that "The kingdom of God is within" as the great Teacher taught, and even yet, many of us are prone to place the "kingdom" in the future, something to be attained later. ...

        The vast sweep of God’s unseen domain is beyond our mortal comprehension, but for you and me God assumes just as much of His almightiness and omnipresence as we can individually grasp and sense. To each one of us He becomes "my heavenly Father" to whom, in the midst of our own being, we have access and to whom we may pray. Whatever may be your conception or mine, it does not change the absolute God, the principle of all good; but to you and to me, God is exactly what we individually conceive Him to be. Likewise, His "kingdom" is, for each one of us, that place in our consciousness which most fully perceives His unfailing and illimitable good....

        To remove darkness from a room, light must be brought in. To remove darkness and negative conditions from our consciousness, we must turn on the luminosity of God, knowing that His mighty presence is in every part of our being. He is providing for all our needs. He is strengthening and equipping us to solve all our problems. He is blessing every department of our bodies, filling them with His wholeness. He is in all our affairs, in our work, inspiring, guiding, and filling every phase of our endeavor....

        Our friends, our "enemies" (including our own ill nature and negative thoughts), our closest associates, our neighbors, the strangers we meet on the street, we can bless. Every condition and circumstance from this marvelous consciousness of God’s omnipresence, we can bless and bless and bless. Let’s try it! Something within will seem to lift and soar. It will be the very Spirit of God quickening within us, not by our paltry human will or our limited human strength, but by the presence and power released within us...

        The very power that created us wants to fill our minds, hearts, bodies, affairs, our world; wants to fill our whole being to overflowing with good so that we cannot help radiating good to others....This is what our lives should be.... The choice of what our lives shall be is ours, through our own recognition ... and use of this inner power....

        Good morning, and God bless you, everyone!