Sophia Voss was the twin sister of the late Thomas Hardy, a well-known and highly-esteemed servant of God, and was born July 22nd, 1790, at Kirby Lane, in the parish of Kirby Muxloe, a little village four miles west of Leicester. Her father was a stocking weaver; and having a family of 13 children, seven sons and six daughters, she was of course not favoured in her childhood, if it be a favour, with much of the goods of this life. It is not exactly known when the Lord was first pleased to begin his work of grace upon her heart, but it appears to have been about the same time that convictions of sin first laid hold of the conscience of her twin brother…