After decades spent on a coffee table in Huntsville, a German Bible, estimated to be between 154 to 162 years old, has been returned to its home church in Aurora, Colo.

Wayne Smith, 91, carried out his wish to bring the Bible back to St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church after he and his wife Joyce sold their possessions and moved into a retirement apartment.

“It would please me for the Bible to be displayed somewhere inside the church and remain there for another century or more,” Smith told his daughter, author Venita Bonds.

“I would love for people to see one of the original artifacts of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church.”

The book has been placed on display in the rear narthex of the church and is currently available for public viewing.

In a story Bonds recently published,

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