Silence, indeed, is the one form of worship which is almost
universally thought intolerable by Dissenting clergy. Despite
their not-too-distant affinity to the Quakers, they think they
will be heard for their much speaking. And since their
organists too are equally reluctant to let any liturgical
action pass without a ruminative obbligato on the Swell manual,
congregations are subjected to unrelieved noise during a
service which may well have begun with the reading of the
sentence, “Be still, and know that I am God.”
… Christopher Driver, A Future for the Free Churches?