The Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church to form the United Methodist Church. As I recall, the E.U.B. group had about a million members and the Methodist Church about 10 million at the time of the merger. The E.U.B. denomination was referred to by some as "German Methodists", since they were against using alcohol in Holy Communion, as has been the case with the Methodists for a long time, and most of their members descended from German immigrants. However, the term "Evangelical" for them did mean something, as they placed more emphasis upon a literal interpretation of Scripture and the need to evangelize, as compared to the former Methodist Church. At least this was my experience growing up when we had an E.U.B. Church right across the street from my Methodist Church. I do recall that after the merger, apparently some in the former E.U.B. Church were not happy campers with the merger, as they refused at first to use the new United Methodist Church Sunday School material, as I guess that it was not "Evangelical enough" for them. I suspect that this practice did not last very long.