Cemeteries are for non-Moravians. Moravians do not use the word "cemetery" for their burial places. Moravians referred to their burial ground as Gottes Acker - a term they brought from Saxony.
In German Acker is not a measure of land mass but describes an agricultural field - a place where one plants seeds. Moravians think of God's Acre or field as the place where the bodies of believers are sown to await the Resurrection of the dead at the Second Coming of Christ.
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