Mormon now began to discourse on the second portion of his text, Hope, by first asking: "How is it that ye can attain unto faith, save ye shall have a hope?" and "And what is it that ye shall hope for?" Again, Mormon answered his own query: "The Atonement of Christ and the power of His Resurrection, to be raised unto Life Eternal. That, dear reader, is the sum and substance of all our joy, our happiness and peace. With an eye of faith we discern Life Eternal; with a clean mind, clean of all worldly things, we joyously hope for it. Our faith in Christ and our desire to obtain its promised reward, Life Everlasting, causes us to strive, for the glory of God, to lay hold upon every good thing (See, vv. 19-20), that in doing so we might attain (See, V. 40) that which we see through the eye of faith, and which in our minds we look forward to-hope for. "Wherefore, if a man have faith he must needs have hope"; for faith begets hope, "for without faith there cannot be any hope."