1912 — LDS Book Which Claims There Are People on Mars! — Hardbound

Anderson, Edward (ed). Selections From the Writings of William Halls, With an Autobiographical Sketch of the Author. Deseret News Press: Salt Lake City, Utah, 1912. 149 pages.

Black cloth hardcover; binding is damaged somewhat on the back cover; Good to fair for a book printed in 1912.

“That the planet Mars is inhabited by intelligent beings is not a matter of dispute. But as to the kind of people they are, in the absence of divine revelation, is a matter of speculation.

            In the Cosmopolitan of March, 1908, H. G. Wells, writes on “The Things that Live on Mars” from the standpoint of the evolutionist. Reasoning on the hypothesis that climatic conditions are very different on Mars to those on the earth, he assumes that animal life on Mars will differ from that on the earth accordingly. He pictures intelligent beings on that planet as grotesque monstrosities…covered with feathers….

            But this theory is contrary to divine revelation, and also analogical reason….

            The inhabitants of all the worlds, including Mars, being the sons and daughters of God, to suppose that they are different in form in one world to those on another, is unreasonable; though there may be individual peculiarities, no two being just alike; yet in their general conformation, they must agree….

            This is a plain and truly wonderful revelation in regard to this earth and its people. That other worlds are included in this divine purpose….

            When an earth that abides the law of a celestial kingdom has filled the measure of its creation as the abode of mortal man, it passes on to celestial glory, and becomes the abode of its inhabitants, who have also kept the celestial law; and have also passed on to immortality and eternal life, to move in a higher plane of existence. Then other worlds are created as the abode of other mortals, sons and daughters of God, who in turn are also exalted according to the law they keep. And thus there is no end to the creations of God.”