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Sumrall wrote many works during his lifetime ranging from topics such as evangelism, miraculous healing, demons and exorcism, angels and more. Some of his works were of a more polemic nature such as warning about the supposed dangers and detrimental effects of movies and Roman
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throughout eastern Asia and Europe. In South
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from demons; his work was influential in spreading the concept of demons residing in "dark" or non-Christian regions of the world.
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