But I have been told, by his successor in the living--a clever sensible man, and a thoroughly active clergyman--that there was no call upon Mr. Hale to do what he did, relinquish the living, and throw himself and his family on the tender mercies of private teaching in a manufacturing town; the bishop had offered him another living, it is true, but if he had come to entertain certain doubts, he could have remained where he was, and so had no occasion to resign. 
But I have been told, by his successor - a sensible, active clergyman - that there was no need for Mr. Hale to relinquish the living; he could have remained where he was, and so had no occasion to resign. 