The Latin church introduced it pretty generally, but not without the protest of eminent men, so that even in the Council of Trent a motion was made, though not carried, to prohibit the organ at least in the mass. The Lutheran church retained it, the Calvinistic churches rejected it, especially in Switzerland and Scotland; but in recent times the opposition has largely ceased.

—Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, 8 vol. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), 4.439.