Roman Catholic apologist Patrick Madrid recently posed a challenging question for Latter-day Saints. That is, if Mormonism is essentially a "restoration" of primitive Christianity, where can we find historical evidence for some ancient Christian group that "was identical to the Mormon Church of today"? He goes on, "We have records of many controversies that raged in the early days of the Church , and there just is no evidence-none at all-that Mormonism existed prior to the 1830s."1 Whether Mr.