W Brookman

This is a book I found a couple of years ago. Mr Brookman was a Baptist with quite unconventional views on the fate of unbelievers. He didn't believe that masses of unsaved were dropping off into hell every day. He participated in an English movement called the Conditional Immortality Association, during the late 1880's and well past 1900 it published a large amount of original material under the name of "The Faith".

I have found this book The Future of the Non-Elect Dead: The Vast Majority of Mankind in all Ages, 1906 printing to be quite inspiring. He noticed that the salvation work of Christ extends to all humanity just as death had affected all. His prefatory remarks capture some key thoughts:

"This is an Argument of View concerning the Non-Elect's Future Probation in Resurrection, - for God does not prove that which is already tried and proved, as fallen and death-doomed, - for a right to take of the Tree of Life individually, (thus differing from their doom to death collectively) if found worthy of so doing after the judgment of "the man" or the few stripes" accoring to their lives "in Adam," as may or may not be needed for the character which they thus formed when they first lievd on Earth." page 4

He consistently links the coming resurrection with salvation and with judgment, they aren't opposites but a different aspects of the same process. The outcomes isn't necessarily bad as in much evangelical eternal torment views or necessarily good as in universalism.

On page 168 he continues:
"In the view I have presented throughout, and am now concluding, no such doctrine as that erroneously termed by many "a second chance" has been advocated. I neither use the term, not have I taught, nor do I believe the principle contained in it: the Truth of Election absolutely forbids it: but I do heartly believe "in a hope" as Paul puts it, existing in connection with "the Resurrection of the unjust"; and that such Period becomes the period of judgment, and probation for fitness to liev on the part of the Non-Elect or the vast majority of Manking (a much wider scope that that of the "unjust"), and is in reality their first "chance," using that term in the ordinary sense, but to speak more correctly, their opportunity: for they were born into a condition of condemnation and death: and so Death, not a Probation for Life, was theirs by their very birth; out of which Redemption by Resurrection alone can save them."

Brookman's book quoted is only one among several in the same vein published by "The Faith", although not all in that fellowship accepted the above position. Some very encouraging considerations concerning God's kingdom to come.