"Orson F. Whitney, a member of the Council of the Twelve of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, referred to animals having souls. He stated that they were 'to be eternally perpetuated.' And Joseph Smith so believed, or he would not have said (as he is reputed to have said) concerning his favorite horse, when it died, that he expected to have it in eternity. Nor would he have uttered his heaven-inspired pronouncement that 'the four beasts' seen in vision by John the Revelator (Rev. 4:6) 'in describing heaven,' 'represent the glory of the classes of beings'—men, beasts, fowls, and creeping things—' in their destined order or sphere of creation, in the enjoyment of their eternal felicity' (Doctrine and Covenants 77:1-2)."