"He is finally on the brink of the water"

Douglas Swan's efforts to share his faith in Tasmania

In November 1875, Douglas Swan was a young twenty-six-year-old on his way to Australia to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Scottish native had been baptised at age eight in Edinburgh, Scotland, and emigrated with his mother in 1862. His parents had been baptised in 1842 and so he had been raised with the gos…