Great prosperity and militarism are a combination incompatible with the worship of God. Devotion to the Maker of the heavens and the earth, revealed in the Prince of Peace, naturally makes a worshiper abhor an institution of which the archenemy of God and man is the originator and the perpetuator.
Their Own Hands—Made. To worship the conceptions of one’s own mind—the creations of one’s own hands—indicates ignorance and simplicity.