Starting motor on stand wiring help

If it were points here's how i do it. battery hot to starter, then a jumper to the hot side of the coil from battery hot. Negative battery cable to block, either head or manifold bolt hole. distributor grounds to block, and wire from distributor goes to negative side of coil. rusty is right, if electronic you will need more, and with points you may want a resistor, but i have ran 'em without... the points will burn up if ran too long without resistor. keep in mind with the setup i mentioned, I am running off battery sometimes with a 10 amp charge, no alternator and underhood wiring, this is just to fire an engine up. if you are building an engine run stand you may want to run a charging system wired like the car like RRR is saying.