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of people gather on summer Sunday evenings to listen to excellent music in Unity's spacious amphitheater.
The Unity idea began about fifty years ago. It originated in the mind of a woman, Mrs. Myrtle Fillmore. She and her husband, Charles, a real estate man, developed the School and its principles. It is not a religious denomination in the accepted sense. It is rather a school of Christian teaching. It stresses temperance, vegetarian diet, and prayer. One of the tenets of the faith is the tithing idea of the ancient Hebrews. Not only is each individual member encouraged to give a tenth of his gross income, but he is also urged to win ten converts to the School.
Charles Fillmore is still living at the age of ninety, and still is active in lecturing and conducting classes. Unity School of Christianity has grown to the point where it has over a million subscribers to its numerous publications.
One of the most distinctive churches in the city is the one large Community Church. For more than thirty years, it was in the capable hands of the late Dr. Burris Jenkins, classed always as a "liberal minister." This non-denominational group is housed in an edifice designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Probably no other building in Kansas City has called down the controversial judgments of so many as this angular white building overlooking the Country Club Plaza. It is massive yet graceful; labyrinthine within and without; ultra-modem in design, and low, wide, and horizontal in feeling. Here on the carpeted plat' form lower than the congregation, University players have trod in buskin, in such quaint and reflective plays as "Everyman" . . . and the city's most distinguished group of modern dancers have performed barefoot and by candlelight their Christmas rituals.
The city boasts of many men of rehgion who are "scholars and gentlemen," active civic leaders, and respected and known in many other places as well as in their own town. The Episcopalian bishop, the Very Reverend Robert Nelson Spencer, English-born, is a poet as well as one of the best-loved dignitaries of his church. The Reverend Andreas Bard, pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran church, is a colorful and versatile character. He can be the center of attraction — swapping yarns with traveling men in the smoker, writing an opera, playing a Shakespearean role, or arguing Victorian liberalism with Sinclair Lewis. And it was, by the way, in