In the same manner, making a four-line stanza of each one, are sung, "Goin' to meet brother, mother, sister, etc.", and also "My God is a walkin', tryin', etc.," at the judgment bar. So, too, it is "_prayin'_ time, _mournin'_ time, _singin'_ time, _shoutin'_ time, _tryin'_ time, etc., at the judgment bar." This song may be given as the last one of the class peculiar to warnings and admonitions to sinners. It closes with still other verses that give vivid pictures of the judgment bar. Well, sinners, keep a prayin' at the judgment bar. Well, it's too late to pray at the judgment bar. Why didn't you take heed at the judgment? Some come crippled at judgment. Oh, I look fer my mother, brother, sister, at de judgment. Both the sinner and the seeker has a "hard time" during some time in his experience. The duties of everyday life, too, often seem hard. Now on his knees, now shouting, now sorrowful and now glad, the negro comes from "hanging over hell" to die and "set by de Fadder's side." The average negro appears to pity himself, and his song intensifies the feeling. The songs that follow may be classed as those that give the state of uncertainty and doubt, together with pity mingled now and then with the note of triumph. In "Oh, what a hard time", _sisters_, _brothers_, _children_, _preachers_, _seekers_--all have the same difficulties. _Oh, what a hard time, Oh, what a hard time, Oh, what a hard time--All God's children have a hard time._ Oh, what a hard time, oh, what a hard time, Oh, what a hard time, my Lord had a hard time, too. So in another division will be given the song "My Trouble is Hard", the idea of which seems to be derived from the old plantation songs, though the new song is entirely different from the old ones. The plantation negroes used to sing "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen", in which they were "sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes almost to de groun'." Others sung it "Nobody knows the trouble I see, or I've had", and asked: "Brother, sister, preacher, will you pray for me?" In the same pathetic tone the "Sinner man" gives another phase of the feeling. My mother' n yo' mother both daid an' gone, My mother' n yo' mother both daid an' gone, My mother' n yo' mother both daid an' gone, Po' sinner man he so hard to believe. My folks an' yo' folks both daid an' gone, Po' sinner man he so hard to believe. My brother 'n yo' brother both daid an' gone, Po' sinner man he so hard to believe. In the same way "my sister", etc., completes the song, with favorite lines, "Down in de valley", "Upon mountain Jehober spoke", etc., being inserted as often as they desire. "Hanging over hell" gives more intensity to the feeling of the sinner. He says: _When I wus hangin' over hell, over hell, When I wus hangin' over hell, over hell, Well, I had no one to pity poor me, poor me._